Thursday, October 09, 2003BuzzfloodJust read Stefan Beck's article on Buzzflood or Blabberforce or whatever and I think it misses an important point. This idea isn't coming out of nowhere, it's an inevitable result of Dartmouth's strategy of shifting to a research university model. With the College moving away from its traditional role as a unique liberal arts college alternative to the Big Three and towards emulating them, it's only natural that many people, whether students, faculty, or administrators, will seek some way to compete effectively.Of course, whatever the justifications, I find it hard to sympathize with a group that thinks it's going to insert Dartmouth into the same sentence as Harvard, Yale and Princeton by pointing out that Kobe Bryant's prosecutor went to Dartmouth. But the blame for this embarassment shouldn't be heaped on misguided students when the real cause is the ill-considered policies of the administration. Posted by Alexander at 11:01 AM Comments Post a Comment (we enforce our comments policy) |
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